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Request for CME Certification through MUSC Office of Continuing Medical Education

IMPORTANT: This request form must be submitted and planning meeting scheduled at least nine (9) months prior to the proposed activity date. Please note: Faculty/Presenters cannot be invited until after the Activity Director and Planning Committee have been vetted by the MUSC Office of CME. For Forms received after 9 months, an invoice will be emailed to you for the late fee of $600.
 
1. Complete this request
2. Contact the Office of CME to request a CME planning meeting at 843-876-1925 or email us at cmeoffice@musc.edu
 

Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™

The MUSC Office of CME is considering applying for Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™. This would allow us the opportunity to be simultaneously accredited to provide continuing education activities for multiple professions through a single, unified application process, fee structure, and set of accreditation standards. In order for us to apply for this accreditation, we must show that at least 25% of all our activities are planned by a healthcare team for a healthcare team, consisting of at least two healthcare professions addressing an interprofessional team healthcare practice gap. Those same professions on the planning committee need to be represented in the target audience. An applicant organization needs to have plannedthis way for at least 18 months prior to applying for this accreditation and can demonstrate an existing interprofessional team approach to education in healthcare.

Many healthcare professionals have financial relationships with ineligible companies. (An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.) These relationships must not be allowed to influence accredited continuing education. The MUSC Office of CME is responsible for identifying relevant financial relationships between individuals in control of educational content and ineligible companies and managing these to ensure they do not introduce commercial bias into the education. Financial relationships of any dollar amount are defined as relevant if the educational content is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. 

If the Activity Director or any of the planning committee members have a relevant financial relationship with any of the topics that will be covered during the activity, at least one of the following mitigation steps will be required: 

1. Divest the financial relationship
2. Recusal from controlling aspects of planning and content with which there is a financial                relationship with an ineligible company
3. Peer review of planning decisions by persons without relevant financial relationships
4. Other {please specify)
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